Through the eyes of a young veteran, the movie recalls the dramatic events that lead to the born of the Italian Agrarian Fascism between 1919 and 1922.
Remo comes back after war with the desire to make a life for himself with his fiancée Lucia, but
finds the town disrupted by struggles between socialist leagues and tenants, sharecroppers,
landowners.
Remo joins the emerging Fasci di Combattimento and little by little become the right hand of his
ex-Captain Italo Balbo. The carnage of Piazza D'Accursio (Bologna) the massacre of Castello
Estense (Ferrara) are the reason for Italo Balbo's descent into political contention and get
Mussolini’s trust.
The novel is based on events that actually happened but have fallen into oblivion. Only Remo, Lucia
and their families are fictional, supporting the story to tell the viewer about the climate and daily
life of the people of Ferrara during the so-called “Red Biennium” and “Black Biennium.”
Based on the true story in 1931 of a navy wife who claimed she was raped by a gang of Hawaiians, leading to one of them being kidnapped and murdered in a scheme hatched by the girl's mother. Clarence Darrow defended the family in Hawaii's Crime of the Century.
From the back seat of police cruiser, a father sees his daughter taken out of the back of his car by, Ed, a man he knows from her school. The father must decide if she is better off with him or in the "system" like him. Ed must learn that raising a child isn't about finding personal redemption.
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